"The main character (believed to represent Twain) has several dreams throughout his life about the same woman. The narrative depicts five of these dreams, and in each dream the main character and the woman take on different names. The woman's appearance (hair and eye color) also changes in each dream. However, the characters' ages in the dreams remain the same, he is seventeen and she is fifteen, and the two characters never fail to recognize each other." (Wikipedia)
First published in Harper's, December 1912. Had been written in 1898.
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
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| 1922 | The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories | Harper & Brothers | Collection | ||
| 1923 |
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The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories | Harper & Brothers | Collection | |
| 1939 | The Story Survey | J. B. Lippincott | Anthology | 106 | |
| 1947 |
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The Fireside Book of Ghost Stories | Bobbs-Merrill Company | Anthology | 582 |
| February 1962 | The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories | Signet Classic / New American Library | Collection | |6 | |
| October 1984 |
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The Science Fiction of Mark Twain | Archon Books | Collection | 117 |
| March 2003 |
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Tales of Wonder | University of Nebraska Press | Collection | 117 |
| August 2008 |
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Great American Ghost Stories: Chilling Tales by Poe, Bierce, Hawthorne and Others | Dover Publications | Anthology | 101 |
| October 2012 |
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The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories | Signet / New American Library | Collection |